UID:
edocfu_9959739570002883
Format:
1 online resource (553 p.)
ISBN:
0-8047-9320-4
Content:
The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar-a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness. For more than a century, the whitening gracias al sacar has fascinated historians. Even while the documents remained elusive, scholars continually mentioned the potential to acquire Whiteness as a provocative marker of the historic...
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Preface --
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One. Conclusions: --
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Two. Introductions --
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Three. Interstices --
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Four. Connections --
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Five. Benchmarks --
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Six. Balances --
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Seven. Exceptions --
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Eight. Opportunities --
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Nine. Dissentions and Discords: 1796–1803 --
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Ten. Denouements: 1803–1806 --
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Eleven. Recalibrations --
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Twelve. Evolutions --
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Thirteen. Retrospectives --
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Appendix A: Archival/Printed References to Whitening Cases --
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Appendix B: Dates of Service, Vacancies, and Experience of Fiscals for Peru and New Spain (Mexico) --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-5092-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804793209
